How to keep motivation, when nexting x100?

[memerylane]

Frankly, you don't. The motivation of this game for me has always been enjoying the progress of stealing loot and advancing. Hitting next is not fun or profitable, so I have cut back my playing considerably. I have stopped gemming, I often gemmed builders and troops in the past. If something doesn't change I will just drift away. I don't expect to change SC, they are too big. So I will just do what is right by me, and stop playing when it is no longer fun.

I would have quit a long time ago if not for my wonderful clan. I am really hoping the game improves at some point so I can keep hanging out with them, but my time for games is limited and COC is dying for me in the current form. I have a TH8 alt and it's ok to raid on that account, but then why not just try a different game if I want to start fresh. I want to enjoy my TH10 if I stay in COC.

This is almost exactly how I feel: getting bored, no incentive to spend money or gems, infinitely more likely to drift away because of this failure of a loot system, and sticking around for now because I have a great, fun clan.

Supercell is literally doing nothing to keep me right now.

[BonbeeTyrael]

As a very high-ranked player, I don't think you are identifying with average-Joe Clashers AT ALL. Our clan has a half-dozen newer TH10's and we are all having the same extreme problems finding loot. Hit NEXT 150 times last night, then settled on a base that had 147,000 gold. Unfortunately, the searches cost me 150,000. I am rising through the Crystal leagues in search of loot. But, the game has become far too tedious to make that any fun. So, sadly, I am done.

I'm actually a fairly new th10, about 2 months in. I did occaisonnaly lose gold on searches. Ask my clan I went -400k on one raid. You can't let it bring you down. Push yourself up, dust yourself off, and try again. It gets better. Even if it's not the next raid, it'll be the next hour or maybe that evening. Also, weekend are always bad so never base loot off of weekend loot. If that doesn't work try learning balloonions for crystal 1 or master 3. If that doesn't work try hog healers in crystal, if that doesn't work take a break and push to champion and tool around up there for a bit. Wait atleast 7-10 days before you declare that there is 'no loot' in a range. Bad luck exists everywhere.

[TheKites]

I'm just on the forums every day and there's always 5 threads about loot on the front page 24/7 and I'm just sitting here making decent/good loot(occasional bad searches) wondering how people can complain.

Because you are in the top 1% of players. Congrats on being that good. The vast majority of players who are not skilled enough (to rise to Masters) or blessed with enough free time to play 6 hours per day must quit the game. That, to me is sad.

[Lawdyofthetots]

I just read the whole thread. Interesting how people view the loot. my take on it is loot is still there you just need to know when, where, and how to find it. Spending lots of time searching is not fun and im sure all of us have gone on those 50+ search sprees. Just gotta be patient and keep grinding. I agree with ♥♥. th10 is the final frontier... not supposed to be easy. lets all just be glad loot is not like it was for th10 months ago when 100k gold was a god send.

[BonbeeTyrael]

Because you are in the top 1% of players. Congrats on being that good. The vast majority of players who are not skilled enough (to rise to Masters) or blessed with enough free time to play 6 hours per day must quit the game. That, to me is sad.

Try using it on your phone and clashing in small free times you get. You can total 6h worth of raiding without being online 6 hours.

[DragonxXx]

This has gone widely off topic,

1 individual can't speak for a 1000 people unfortunately, the speech is just drowned out,

You can try on the forums but it falls on death ears occasionally,

We can all hope and pray for Th11 then inevitably this predicament will arise again.

[BonbeeTyrael]

As a very high-ranked player, I don't think you are identifying with average-Joe Clashers AT ALL. Our clan has a half-dozen newer TH10's and we are all having the same extreme problems finding loot. Hit NEXT 150 times last night, then settled on a base that had 147,000 gold. Unfortunately, the searches cost me 150,000. I am rising through the Crystal leagues in search of loot. But, the game has become far too tedious to make that any fun. So, sadly, I am done.

(Couldn't help myself)

[TheKites]

Try using it on your phone and clashing in small free times you get. You can total 6h worth of raiding without being online 6 hours.

I appreciate your attempt to provide advice ♥♥, but you are really not understanding the average player. When a worker, student, parent has 10 minutes during a lunch break, or before bedtime, they do not want to spend that time hitting the NEXT button. They want to play the game. They want to attack someone. It is easy to just tell those people to rise to Masters league. But for many, that is not feasible. As soon as you log off, you get attacked and lose the trophies you just won. Rising high up the trophy leagues is for those who can dedicate time to the game.

Imagine I opened a Hamburger restaurant and made you stand in the corner and hit a button for a half an hour before I would serve you a burger. Would you eat there anymore? No, you would find another place to eat.

[memerylane]

Clash of Clans is my favorite game of all-time.

Seriously? Did you not play Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid, Super Mario 64, Warcraft, Halo, Doom, Grand Theft Auto, Diablo, The Legend of Zelda, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Gran Turismo, Sim City…?

[TheKites]

Seriously? Did you not play Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid, Super Mario 64, Warcraft, Halo, Doom, Grand Theft Auto, Diablo, The Legend of Zelda, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Gran Turismo, Sim City…?

To each his own.